Leo Nero's Vero from 1977 [flac limited time only]

Info on this dude here.  Note he had a follow up album in 1980, described as new wave.

It was recommended by a commenter and I finally got a chance to listen, definitely I would recommend hearing it.  Most of it is straightforward late 1970s singer songwriter stuff very emotional, piano based, along the lines of David Bowie circa. Young Americans, but without the guitar and funk, or Lou Reed as on the Berlin album, some of it quite ordinary.

A lovely instrumental called La Bambola Rota:

Some lovely Gentle Giant style dissonance in the Tastiere Isteriche:

Multiple Chikara Ueda albums [17 total]

 

Many thanks to the commenter who uploaded all these.  Of the ones that I recognize as not available before there's the Funk Beethoven, the Disco ones, Mellow Wonder, and Funpico, but I'm not a Chikara Ueda expert and I wouldn't know if these were common or rare.  I think there have been multiple posts on him on this blog before as well (4 before this one).

Anyways, thanks a million for assembling these and sharing them!  I will listen to them a few at a time, or even fewer, because I find it a bit generic and therefore exhausting but I know there are plenty of fans out there.

The link will probably expire quickly, go ahead and request reups.

Obviously, I didn't bother to post all the album covers since there are 17 in total in the package.

More of the crazy Tie Break from 1995, with Jorgos Skolias, cassette

 

I posted their stuff in 3 separate installments, here with 1989, here with 1990's cassette Duch, here with 1991's Gin Gi Lob.  They never strayed from the wild progressive mixture of uptempo nuttiness vocals plus angular dissonant music.  I think this one completes their 1990s oeuvre, assuming the Retrospective is a compilation.

A track called odszukany w cieniu gives you a clear idea of the totality, and note that the music accompanies spoken poetry from Polish poet / priest Jan Twardowski:

A track called Telefon milczy sounds like the Super Freego from recently:

Shockingly uncompromising music for 1995, I'd say.

Richard Hill's Chanctonbury Ring, from 1978 by request, FLAC limited time only

 

Richard Hill made quite a bit of library music back in the day, I would love to know the quality of that material.  This LP is from 1978 and is not really library, being more concept album I would presume.

It's a bit of an odd mix of classical composition plus orchestral plus commercial songs plus Mike Oldfield type instrumentals.  Despite the cover and the impression you might get, it's definitely NOT Oldfield-style progressive music.

The track called Sisters of the Moon gives you a reasonable idea of the contents, note the mix of orchestra and simple melody with bizarre background (orgiastic?) chanting:

Arousing Polaris, Archives 1974-1975, by request, FLAC limited time only sorry

Unfortunately the sound quality is poorly recorded, and for me that's a huge detraction, but for others maybe not.  From what we can discern the music is solidly in the prog rock mold though with the chord changes, dissonances, irregular rhythms, etc. Info on this release here.  Note the odd song names, reminding us of famed US band Yezda Urfa.

Opening track, Girl Friday gets her shoes caught in the revolving door:

Arousing Polaris was a creative rock band whose influences were the late psychedelic era and early British and European art-rock scenes. It brought together four musicians unified by a passion for creative expression and the cutting edge sounds of the times. Although trapped by the American commercial scene, they managed to have a solid following, despite their failure to have out any recordings, until now.

This documentation represents the groups earliest musical statement. At this stage they were purely instrumental, adding vocals about a year later.

Rehse and Frankovic were neighbors and played in several projects before. Demichei and Rehse were school mates, and Krueger met Rehse at technical school. Rehearsal was at Frankovic's basement. Ages ranged from 17 to 22.

In March of 1974 Rehse bought a Hammond organ, which marked the beginning of rehearsal with Frankovic. Initially they jammed with a drummer from their "William The Conqueror" days, but Demichei was far more suited for the position. Krueger would join a short time later. The line up on these recordings would last until August of 1976, when Krueger decided to leave. After his departure the group became a trio, expanding it's sound with electronics and various ethnic instruments. In June of 1979 they disbanded for 10 months before re-emerging as the psychedelic pop group "Plasticland."

Glenn Rehse.

A review of this release by local media Shepherd Express:

https://shepherdexpress.com/music/album-reviews/archives-74-75-by-arousing-polaris-rockhaus/

A lost CD, Australian Justin Humphries' Mind Funk from 1997

 

An album that to my surprise was not databased on discogs, although likely to be this artist.  However if searched online it can be found for sale in some rare places, for example here.

The opening track called Cloud shocked me when I first heard it, because it so closely resembles my favourite library album the Ozone one from back here, by Phil Moon.  The ingenious chord changes and movements, stately and cloudlike of course, stunned me:

Title track is more typical of the rest of the instrumental fusion:

But there's a whole bunch of great music in there, you'll see what I mean, electric guitar-based fusion but quite original and quite excellent, esp. when you consider the multitudes of songs and albums we've already heard in that sphere of life ("are you sure you're not collecting the same album over and over again?" in my wife's immortal words).

Maybe after listening you'll agree with me that it's tragic this CD didn't survive the 'test of time' --  but so much garbage pop culture did.

Picnic at Hanging Rock OST 1975 with the Ascent Theme

 

I was surprised to find out there is no actual soundtrack for this lovely, deservedly famous movie, despite the beauty of the theme music which was written by Bruce Smeaton.  In a way it makes sense, kind of, since the remainder of the tracks are the abhorrent Zamfir pipes of pan folk songs we all grew up with, sadly, and very well known and tiresome classical pieces.   Presumably the detestable nature of the Zamfir stuff was enough reason to avoid forcing any human to listen to more of it.  But it's tragic the ascent theme wasn't released.

I hadn't noticed the music at all actually when I saw the movie, but I was a kid at the time, what I remember is being highly impressed with the extreme beauty of the cinematography (and the girls) as well as the depth of the emotional themes and the mysterious story which I thought was based on a true story, but today in the age of wikipedia we can learn it was purely fictional from the beginning.  

People have put together unofficial soundtracks it seems with the different pieces, and these are what I uploaded.  But it's obviously beholden to the progressive music of the 70s, eg early Genesis or Pink Floyd with the varying minor chords, classical-derived, the very odd time signature which I think is said to be in 17/8, and the beautiful spacey synth sound, as I call it.  If you haven't heard the Ascent Theme before, you'll see what I mean, it's really quite stunning, too bad we can't have a full album's worth of this stuff, I suppose we did back when Pink Floyd made Meddle and Echoes, etc.: